Nurse-Client Communication presents an overview of effective communication and its influence on therapeutic relationships across the life span. Nursing students, novice, and experienced nurses will find this unique book refreshing, informative, and essential in working with clients, families, and professional colleagues in various practice settings. Readers will find the application of communication skills across the lifespan both refreshing and essential to establishing and maintaining healthy interpersonal relationships. In addition, this text focuses on the impact of culture, ethnicity, and the impact of the nurse's own culture on communication, empathy, and understanding.

"This would be a good beginning text for nursing students, but it also has valuable information for nurses in general who would like to improve on their therapeutic communication both in their interpersonal lives as well as their professional lives. The critical thinking questions would lend themselves well to class discussion and the vignettes are especially helpful in role modeling effective communication techniques with clients, families, physicians, and other team members. The lifespan approach and the chapter on culture make this book very timely due to changing societal demographics and the advances in information technology."